Here art grows on trees features Simryn Gill's latest works commissioned for the Australian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. Edited by the exhibition curator, Catherine de Zegher, this limited edition monograph includes more than 100 artwork plates printed on different paper stocks that demonstrate the generative and cyclic nature in Gill's remarkable oeuvre of quotidian beauty. The essays by leading international thinkers and writers include: Catherine de Zegher (On Line. Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, MoMA); Carol Armstrong (Scenes in a Library, MIT Press); Lilian Chee (Conserving Domesticity, ORO Editions); Ross Gibson (26 Views of a Starburst World, UWA Press); Kajri Jain (Gods in the Bazaar, DUP Books); Brian Massumi (Semblance and Event, MIT Press); and Michael Taussig (What Color is The Sacred? UCP).

Here art grows on trees, 2013Edited by Catherine de ZegherPublished by MER. Paper Kunsthalle with the Australian Council for the ArtsISBN: 978 94 9069 371 8

Insomnia is the first small-scale sculpture edition by Simryn Gill, who works between Sydney, Australia and Port Dickson, Malaysia. Opaque leaded glass replicates three metal gears originally used in the machinery of Tata trucks. Insomnia directly relates to Gill's work Throwback, shown at documenta 12 in 2007 and which also references Tata truck parts, and certainly recalls Naught, currently in the Australian Pavilion at the 55th Venice Biennale. Tata trucks, often produced in India, are used in Malaysia for shipping and transport. In this increasingly global society with collapsing time zones, a certain degree of sleeplessness and omnipresence is demanded. The passage of time and its effects are manifested in the glass gears, which evoke sea glass-ravaged by sand, sea, and ultimately-time. The three glass gears come packed in a small wooden crate with shredded Kraft paper, replicating, in a manner, machine part manufacturing.

Pearls is a photographic record of Simryn Gill's ongoing bead-making project, that was begun in 1999, in which she makes books into bead necklaces. Titles as far-ranging as Gandhi's autobiography, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, The Beano Book and Che Guevara's Bolivian Diaries form a selection of the printed matter used to create a rich and stirring collection of objects. Features two texts by the artist.

Catalog to accompany the exhibition Simryn Gill: Selected Work (2002) at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. With texts by Sharmini Pereira, a London-based curator and writer, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson, curator at the UCLA Berkeley Matrix Gallery, and exhibition curator Wayne Tunnicliffe.